Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Mar 2009 13:27 UTC
For Windows 7, Microsoft has made some changes to User Account Control to counter the criticism that UAC was too intrusive. It didn't take long before several holes were poked in Windows 7's default UAC settings, and now one is left to wonder: is it wise to sacrifice security for (perceived?) usability? Ars has an editorial that deals with this question.
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Call unix's 9 rwxrwxwx bits an `ACL' if you like, but it's a very short and limited one - compared to NT ACLs. In NT you can specify a permission like 'User Alice is allowed to append to this file, but not truncate it. Bob is allowed to create subfolders in this dir, but not new files.' Also permissions can be inherited from a folder to its subfolders & files. You can't do those things with old 9 bit unix permissions.
Linux & other OSs do have better ACLs *now*, but they didn't in 1990 when NT was developed. One might wonder how much they copied from NT's ACL design?
Edited 2009-03-05 21:12 UTC